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Pentagon purchase?

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Question: Saying the Pentagon 'recently' purchased notebook computers with the chip is a bad way to write the fact. When did they purchase it? Give a date and the reader can deduce if it is recent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ee79 (talkcontribs)

Answer: If the processor was first shipped in 2003, 'recently' means recently even now (2005). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.234.235.83 (talkcontribs)

Objections:

  1. The article didn't mention 2003; it doesn't even now.
  2. Two years (from 2003 to 2005) for IC industry, including CPU/RAM/etc, is too huge amount of time to ignore it: chips what cost a fortune yesterday, tomorrow will be considered hopelessly outdated and dead-end branch, incompatible with present and not-too-distant-future technologies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.234.235.83 (talkcontribs)
It's all moot now, I removed the reference. Ehurtley 08:16, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Efficiency

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Please add some real computation/watt efficiency type numbers, if they can be found... 69.87.202.166 22:37, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Native instruction set

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Can software be compiled to the chip's native instruction set? That is, can it be used without the x86 compatibility layer? This should be made clear. --Tene (talk) 07:35, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]